This is the twelfth consecutive year that Garrigues has published its Integrated Report (known until four years ago as the Corporate Social Responsibility Report). This report corresponds to the Garrigues 2017 fiscal year (January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017).

In 2017, we continue to take into account the guidelines and recommendations of the integrated reporting framework published by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in December 2013, adapting them to the progress made on each issue and Garrigues’ business and specific situation. In particular, pages 34-81 provide detailed information on our capital: human, intellectual, social and relationship, natural and financial. This is also the second year we have applied the October 2016 GRI Standards.

I am pleased to present Garrigues’ Integrated Report, which provides a balanced view of the firm’s performance in 2017, sets out the most salient aspects affecting its progress and presents the main areas of work for the coming years.

Innovation, talent and sustainability are the words that best define Garrigues at this moment in time, a challenging period in which the legal services industry is undergoing unprecedented changes due to digitalization and other factors.